Only 5% of tropical forests managed sustainably
Progress has been made but more is needed, report warns.
Almost all tropical forests are still in danger of degradation, according to the most comprehensive survey yet of how these resources are managed. Only 5% of tropical timber is managed sustainably, says the report.
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The issue of tropical Forest degradation has been under discussion for long time. Some environmental groups, organizations, and government have made real effort to stop such tragedy but nothing real has actually been done. In Costa Rica, for example, government and other organization have implement laws to punish the irrational cutting down of the forest but little has been accomplish. We need a global effort in order to prevent the next cataclysm which will the vanishing of our tropical forest .This effort will imply the cooperation from the rich countries to poor countries because at the end the protection and preservation of the tropical forest will be beneficial for all the member of this global community. However, poverty, lack of solidarity, exploitation of resources, under employment, free trade agreements and so on are ways in which rich countries want to continue to live in a world of comfort meanwhile poor people from tropical areas struggle to live and have to use the only resource on hand…the forest. Let us make available to anyone the resources found in the well protected bank of New York city, let us share the richness of all the world so we don’t need to cut down our forest to survive. It’s a problem of politics rather that ecological.
Posted by: David Guadamuz | May 30, 2006 09:49 PM